Alexis Elaine Heintz is a liberal arts student. In six months, she will be ready to write software codes.
BANGALORE: Alexis Elaine Heintz is a liberal arts student. In six months, she will be ready to write software codes.
The transformation for this 21-year old graduate in international studies to a code jockey is underway in Mysore, at the sprawling campus of software major Infosys.
Heintz did a major on Latin America, but it was “double opportunity” when Infosys went to hire people on campus from University of North Carolina.
“It is a opportunity that I could not refuse. The first was working at Infosys, which had showed concern for society and also working and travelling around India. It came as a total package,” Heintz told DNA Money.
She will be posted to work at one of the development centres in the US. But doesn’t a person need a background in engineering become a software programmer.
“When I met Infosys officials, they said that an arts background was not a problem. The main requirement was the willingness to learn, handle challenges, think logically and solve problems. The rest could be trained,” Heintz, who joined the first batch of 126 graduates, from 82 US colleges as part of the Infosys Global Talent Programme.
If Heintz joined Infosys due to the opportunities in the Indian company, the plain speak of its chairman and chief mentor N R Narayana Murthy had an influence on Syed Imran Haider to join the country’s new economy brand.
“A batchmate of mine during the student exchange programme spoke about Infosys. Murthy had a huge influence in me joining this company,” said Haider, a graduate from the University of Illinois.
Haider and Heintz will join others to get trained in technical and client facing skills, besides a two months rigorous practice on writing codes in the six month session in India, before they are deployed on various projects in the US.
Infosys plans to hire 300 graduates from the US next year and about 25 youngsters from universities in the UK. It would expand the talent search to other nations including Australia and Thailand to gradually increase the percentage of foreigners in its 58,000-strong workforce from three at present and turn it into a multi-ethnic, multi cultural community.
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